Tech and Innovation

Freya Stuart-Hopkins: The Force of Fungi

I don't know what you were doing during September’s unprecedented heatwave in the UK, but I was on the hunt for mushrooms. No not the kind you’re thinking of; but perhaps even more magical. Whilst...

Fixing Our Throwaway Economy

Climate Avengers, Time To End Your Games

Marvel’s ‘Avengers: Endgame’ is the biggest grossing film of the 21st century, ending the long story of several main characters in a climactic battle to save the universe from destruction. Superheroe...

Local Leaders Are The Key

In the last year, as national governments have largely focused on managing the pandemic, it has fallen to local communities, councils and businesses, despite repeated lockdowns, to lead the drive to...

Boosting The Local Economy

This is part of our Unlocking Local Action series of events. Community is the lens so often left out of the environmental discussion, but it’s vital in implementing lasting solutions. Rather than...

Energising Your Community

This is part of our Unlocking Local Action series of events. Community is the lens so often left out of the environmental discussion, but it’s vital in implementing lasting solutions. Rather than...

Amy Reid: Pioneering the community heat pump revolution with CREW Energy

We’re CREW Energy – a Wandsworth- and Merton-based community energy co-operative delivering low-carbon solutions, energy advice and community outreach to south-west London. It was formed in 2014 by a...

Get to know... Nicola Davidson

Carbon Copy Communications Manager Isabelle Sparrow chats to Nicola Davidson, co-Director of MaidEnergy - a not for profit volunteer-led society offering local people the opportunity to invest in sol...

Carbon Copy & Community Pioneers

“Everyone must learn to love change,” according to management guru Tom Peters. One reason he could make a career out of pushing this idea is because, let’s be honest, most of us really don’t.  A...

Melisa Gooding: Bringing Power To The People With North Kensington Community Energy

Repowering London’s aim is to empower communities to take greater control of their energy generation and use. We install solar panels that are community-owned, literally bringing power to the people....

Sat Kaur: Timeless Principles For Eco Homes

The Government’s new Green Home Grants scheme is now live. Low-income households and private homeowners are being offered vouchers of up to £10,000 and £5,000 respectively to ‘wrap up [their homes] f...

Toolkit: 31 Actions

Ashden's mission is to accelerate transformative climate solutions and build a more just world. Our focus is where the need is urgent and the potential for impact great: creating liveable cities and...

Beyond Sustainability

Conventional economics is degenerative. Business as usual depletes our finite natural resources faster than they can recover and we become inevitably poorer as a result. The exciting idea of ‘buildin...

Friends Of Carbon Copy: Centre For Responsible Business

Carbon Copy is privileged to receive support and advice from some of the brightest minds at Birmingham University’s Lloyds Banking Group Centre for Responsible Business. Building the foundations for...

Negative Emissions Technology: Winner 2020

Did you know that stopping the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not enough to avoid global warming of two degrees Celsius? Emissions cannot be cut fast enough to keep the stock of gree...

Blurring The Boundaries

Architects, planners and we as residents have control over our built environment and have the power to reinvent the role of greenery within our towns and cities. By changing how we design and live in...